It tastes sour and slightly warm.
The ingredients include cornuside, strychnine, saponin, tannin, vitamin A-like substance, gallic acid, malic acid and tartaric acid.
Pharmacological animal experiments show that Cornus officinalis has diuretic and antihypertensive effects, can increase leukopenia caused by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and inhibit Shigella dysenteriae and Staphylococcus aureus.